Gertrude Michael

Known for ActingBorn 1911-06-01Died 1964-12-31Talladega, Alabama, USA

Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911, Talladega, Alabama – December 31, 1964, Beverly Hills, California) was an American film, stage and television actress. Born as Lillian Gertrude Michael in Talladega, Alabama, she reportedly graduated from high school at the age of 14. She became a radio singer on the radio. She attended the University of Alabama and Converse College, Cincinnati. Her childhood home in Talladega, Alabama was destroyed by fire in 2007. In 1929 in Cincinnati she made her stage debut in a stock company. She subsequently appeared on Broadway in Rachel Crothers' Caught Wet (1931). She entered the movies playing Richard Arlen's finaceé in Wayward (1932), but her best-remembered role is probably as Rita Ross in Murder at the Vanities (1934), one of the last pre-Code films, in which she sang an ode to marijuana (Sweet Marijuana). She had an affair with writer Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric).After they broke up, Cain wrote the role of the alcoholic lover (based on Michael) in his only novel published during his lifetime, Fast One. Gertrude Michael died, aged 53, from undisclosed causes, in Beverly Hills, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gertrude Michael,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Hidden Power

Just like a Woman

Cradle Song

Behind Prison Walls

Hold That Girl

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Three's a Crowd

Slightly Tempted

Pound Foolish

Sophie Lang Goes West

Woman Trap

Sailor Be Good

Perry Mason

Darling, How Could You!

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Caged

Unashamed

Flamingo Road

Where Are Your Children?

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Second Wife

I Believed in You

Four Star Playhouse

Sea Hunt

Women in Bondage

The Return of Sophie Lang

Allotment Wives

The Notorious Sophie Lang

The Witching Hour

Father Brown, Detective

Menace

I'm No Angel

Bolero

Murder on the Blackboard

Wayward

The Last Outpost

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Cleopatra

The Continental Twist

Club Havana

Women's Prison

Ann Vickers

Four Hours to Kill!

A Bedtime Story

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

Bugles in the Afternoon

Make Way for a Lady

Forgotten Faces